Youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan cspan2s booktv television for serious readers. Up next on booktv, Peter Schwartz argues for selfinterest and has say is fair capitalism from his book, in defense of selfishness. Ready to go there michael . Good evening. My name is robert begley, i am the Development Writer with the Ayn Rand Institute Whose Mission is to promote reason, selfishness and laissezfaire capitalism in American Culture and around the world. Our web site is www. Ayn rand. Org. You can also subscribe to our Youtube Channel to get email and video updates. Tonight is the final of our ten talks in the series called road to a free society, ari on tour, where speakers discuss issues and events from the perspective of ayn rands philosophy objectiveness. More than 50 years ago the virtue of selfishness was published. It demonstrated that the moral principles centered around rational egoism are those most compatible with human life. Tonights talk in defens
They are taking action against. Colter was originally scheduled to make a speech on the campus this thursday but they changed the venue and time. They cited Security Issues for the reason behind the change. . Kpix 5 anne makovec explains why some California Republicans are standing in their way. The president keeps saying make America Great again, but the president s proposal would really make america die. Reporter a push from local leaders to urge the Trump Administration to approve a federal grant for the electrify case of caltrain. Right now caltrain runs on diesel but the project would change that at a cost of 2 billion. Almost 650 million from the federal government is on hold. We must educate the new administration and Congressional Republicans about the importance and readiness of this project. Reporter California Republicans have asked the transportation secretary not to release the money. Their objection, an electrified cal train would eventually become part of the states high
Commemorating 30 years of the u. S. Senate on cspan 2. Now a conversation on urbanization around the world and what it means for geopolitics, the Global Economy, Climate Change, and other issues. Among those well hear from, chicago mayor rahm emanuel, former treasury secretary ankh paulson and the governor of bangkok. [ applause ] thank you very much, indeed for that lovely welcome and on behalf of the Financial Times, as the u. S. Managing editor, i should say we are absolutely delighted to be partnering with the Chicago Global Council on this very, very important event. Thats not just because we love chicago here at the ft, although swernly do, particularly when the weather is like this. And its not just because we love smart conversation with intelligent people. And looking around at you at the audience, i know there are a lot of people who have a lot of ideas to offer on the future of cities and i look forward to hearing what you all have to say. But were particularly pleased to be
Costs of the new appliance . I would say that these standards have very different affects on different households based on some of the characteristics i mentioned and also some that i state as well in my written testimony. For instance, if you live in texas, maybe its more benefit for you to have an Efficient Air conditioner but do you care how efficient your furnace is . In that case you may not save money by getting an efficient furnace. So i would say that different situations geographical area would have an impact on it . Absolutely. And you indicated the use of the product, obviously, would have an impact on it. And you mentioned, i think, some elderly people who maybe use it less would have less benefit from it as well, is that correct . That is correct. And the Department Notes that in its analysis. So all of us make comments about, oh, this is going to save money and so forth, but it certainly is possible in many instances, i would assume, that lowincome people and elderly are
Get court papers and Everything Else and nobody will give them to me. Is there a way to do that . If so, how would i go about doing it . Paul those miranda issues have to be raised immediately at the time of trial. You cannot raise them later on. It becomes too collateral to allow it on a habeas corpus or Something Like that. Susan the Supreme Court anticipated that there would be a flood of cases that had been tried before this decision, so they put a marker down. The june 1, 13 rule. That, to me, was confusing. If it is a right, it is a right. Not one set by time. Paul there were a number of appeals that were filed before then. There were cases of murderers there was one case in new york where someone had knifed four or five people and killed them. That confession, which was perfectly valid when the police had obtained it, because they did not have miranda cards or rules, was thrown out. Fred grant has an interesting book called the selfinflicted wound. He said, whatever you think ab